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What's Cooking At Billa Cakes?

Billa Cakes is the brain child of one hot mama: Me! It's named for my daughter Sybilla, who is my inspiration and motivation. I love baking and as an artist, it gives me an outlet for my creativity as well as an opportunity to help create memories for a lifetime.

Currently this is a hobby to gain experience, but someday I plan on making it into a full time gig! My training includes some classes from my local baking supply shops, the Food Network and the internet. I am a full time student in the School of Hard Knocks.

My hope with this site is to showcase my work as I develop my business and to share my learning experiences with others so they can learn too. Thanks for following along!

Thursday, October 28, 2010

I had an order for some sugar cookies for a wedding recently. The bride wanted something sweet to place in welcome boxes for all of her out of town guests and my friend Kristen asked me to make some for her. After going back and forth a bit, we decided to do packages that contained L's and W's for the bride and groom's names.

The L's were done in white with black polka dots and the W's were done in black with white polka dots. It took me a little bit of experimenting before finally figuring out the best method. I decided to flood each cookie and then use a toothpick to drip the coordinating color into the flood. Yes, it was a lot of work, but the results were worth it.

I finished them off by wrapping them in clear cello bags and tying them with black and white polka dotted ribbon. They were so cute and the bride was thrilled. Congratulations to the happy couple...may you have many years of bliss!